Episodes

  • 3 crucial survival tips for nursing school (and your first year as a nurse)

    3 crucial survival tips for nursing school (and your first year as a nurse)
    Oct 21 2024

    I literally wrote the book on surviving your first year as a nurse (The New Nurse Survival Guide) and today I wanted to share 3 tips from that book that you can start applying TODAY whether you are in nursing school or already working as a nurse.
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    11 mins
  • THIS is what I would tell you to start doing today [take NCLEX questions every day]

    THIS is what I would tell you to start doing today [take NCLEX questions every day]
    Oct 17 2024

    If I could encourage you to start doing ONE thing today while you're in nursing school - it would be this.

    To join the NURSING.com Insider Circle - just visit https://NURSING.com/insider
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    8 mins
  • Potassium-K Lab Value Levels- What I Wish I Knew...

    Potassium-K Lab Value Levels- What I Wish I Knew...
    Apr 30 2024

    What I Wish I Knew: Potassium-K Lab Value Levels

    For resources to help you master Potassium and ALL the lab values, we have a FREE Cheatsheet Download at NURSING.com/labvalues.

    What do bananas, avocados, and kale all have in common?

    Potassium!

    For more resources to help you understand Potassium, Hyperkalemia and Hypokalemia, click here:

    What role does it play in the body?

    What’s a normal range level for potassium?

    And what happens when potassium levels are too low or too high?

    On a shift early in my career, while I was still being oriented to the unit, I held tight to that rule of NEVER pushing IV potassium even when my preceptor was providing instructions that conflicted with that big rule. Here is that story...
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    15 mins
  • Arterial Blood Gas Interpretation | How I Learned ABGs

    Arterial Blood Gas Interpretation | How I Learned ABGs
    Apr 23 2024
    For resources to help you master ABGs and ALL the LabVales, we have a FREE Cheatsheet Download at NURSING.com/LabValues. At NURSING.com you can learn everything you need to know as a nurse about ABGs including gas exchange, acidosis, alkalosis (metabolic and respiratory), normal lab value ranges, and more. We also cover key concepts for NCLEX for arterial blood gases. Our gas exchange nursing care plan covers impaired gas exchange nursing management, impaired gas exchange interventions, impaired gas exchange diagnosis, etc. Excerpt:

    This patient’s lungs were so bad, gas exchange had to take place outside of his body... Learning to read ABGs, and understanding what to do with that information is a very important skill for any nurse, but particularly a cardiovascular ICU nurse.

    Hi I am Nurse Abby, and I loved working in the cardiovascular ICU - that was truly one of my favorite nursing jobs. Today I want to share with you the story of one of my MORE complicated patients.
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    14 mins
  • What I Wish I Knew | My Patient With Distributive Shock

    What I Wish I Knew | My Patient With Distributive Shock
    Apr 16 2024
    For resources to help you master Cardiac topics, we have a FREE Cheatsheet Download at NURSING.com/heart. At NURSING.com you can learn everything you need to know as a nurse about distributive shock including distributive shock pathophysiology, distributive shock definition, types of distributive shock, and more. We also cover key concepts for NCLEX on distributive shock nursing. Our distributive shock nursing care plan covers distributive shock nursing management, distributive shock interventions, distributive shock diagnosis, etc. Excerpt:

    This week I opened up some old nursing school notes, and I started remembering how hard nursing school really was!

    I remember, in particular, getting a little confused between the different types of shock.

    When I was studying distributive shock I found one key 🔑 point that actually cleared up a lot of the misunderstandings and confusion. That started to really turn things around for me in nursing school!
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    7 mins
  • What I Wish I Knew | Coronary Artery Disease CAD for Nurses

    What I Wish I Knew | Coronary Artery Disease CAD for Nurses
    Apr 9 2024
    For resources to help you master Cardiac topics, we have a FREE Cheatsheet Download at NURSING.com/heart. At NURSING.com you can learn everything you need to know as a nurse about coronary artery disease including coronary artery disease pathophysiology, coronary artery disease symptoms, coronary artery disease treatment, and more. We also cover key concepts for NCLEX on coronary artery disease nursing. Our coronary artery disease nursing care plan covers coronary artery disease nursing management, coronary artery disease interventions, coronary artery disease diagnosis, etc. Excerpt: "One afternoon I got a phone call from Todd - our content director here at NURSING.com.

    Hey man, so uh, just letting you know that I’m at the hospital being admitted. I’m having a heart attack, so I probably won’t be in tomorrow."
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    21 mins
  • What I Wish I Knew | My Patient with Heart Failure (CHF)

    What I Wish I Knew | My Patient with Heart Failure (CHF)
    Apr 2 2024

    For resources to help you master Cardiac topics we have a FREE Cheatsheet Download at NURSING.com/heart. At NURSING.com you can learn everything you need to know as a nurse about heart failure (CHF) including: heart failure pathophysiology, heart failure pharmacology (heart failure medications), heart failure symptoms heart failure treatment, and more. We also cover key concepts for NCLEX for heart failure nursing. Excerpt: "So let me tell you about this patient of mine. They had just come out of heart surgery for what is referred to as the ROSS Procedure. Part of this procedure requires the surgeon to reattach the coronary arteries to the aorta. While reattaching them, they were accidentally sutured closed. "

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    5 mins
  • What I Wish I Knew | My Patient With Angina

    What I Wish I Knew | My Patient With Angina
    Mar 26 2024
    For resources to help you master Cardiac topics we have a FREE Cheatsheet Download at NURSING.com/heart. At NURSING.com you can learn everything you need to know as a nurse about agina including: angina symptoms, anginal pharmacology, the difference between stable and unstable angina, and more. We also cover key concepts for NCLEX for angina nursing. Excerpt: ". . . it wasn't my patient that I should have been worried about

    When my patient's son said he wasn't feeling right, it would have been easy to assume it was because of the stress he was under.

    He was visiting his sick mom . . . in the ICU nonetheless.

    But something just didn’t feel right"
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    8 mins